For today, links to eleven reports: from Reuters, Anadolu Agency, the Associated Press, Middle East Eye, and the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA 6-11-25 is HERE, or scroll down. IRAN, SYRIA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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UN General Assembly to vote on immediate Gaza ceasefire over U.S., Israel opposition. From Reuters. The United Nations General Assembly will vote today on a draft resolution that demands an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in the war in Gaza after the United States vetoed a similar effort in the Security Council last week. READ MORE . . .
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Over 40 Gazans killed by Israeli army fire, including many aid seekers, by Ramzi Mahmud and Mohammad Sio | Anadolu Agency GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL — More than 40 more Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli attacks in Gaza today, including many civilians seeking to get aid in the besieged territory, medics said. A medical source said . . . READ MORE . . .
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Hamas says it killed 12 Israeli-backed fighters. Israeli-supported group says they were aid workers, by Samy Magdy and Kareem Chehayeb | AP CAIRO — A unit of Gaza’s Hamas-run police force said it killed 12 members of an Israeli-backed militia after detaining them early today. Hours earlier, an Israel-supported aid group said Hamas attacked a bus carrying its Palestinian workers, killing at least eight of them. READ MORE . . .
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Humanitarian workers killed in Gaza bus ambush that Israel blames on Hamas, by Crispian Balmer and Nidal al-Mughrabi | Reuters JERUSALEM / CAIRO — Israel accused Hamas militants of killing five Palestinians who worked for the U.S-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in an apparent effort to disrupt their food distribution operations. READ MORE . . .
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GHF contractor reveals ‘horrific’ details of U.S.-Israeli ‘aid traps.’ From the Cradle. An anonymous U.S. security contractor employed at one of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid sites in the Gaza Strip has slammed the entire initiative as “pure chaos,” calling it “absolutely horrific” while accusing Israeli forces of continuously firing at unarmed Palestinians. READ MORE . . .
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Internet, phone services completely cut off in Gaza after Israeli strikes, by Ramzi Mahmud and Mohammad Sio | Anadolu Agency ISTANBUL — Internet and phone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip today following Israeli strikes on telecommunications infrastructure, the Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 11 Israeli airstrikes and gunfire kill 60 people in Gaza, many near aid sites, say medics. From Reuters. Local health officials reported that Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed at least 60 Palestinians on Wednesday in Gaza, the majority of whom were near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site in the middle of the enclave. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for June 12 report from Middle East Eye.
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FROM JUNE 11 Convoy arrives in Libya en route to Gaza to challenge Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid, by Yousef Murad | AP ZAWIYA, Libya — A convoy carrying hundreds of activists has arrived in Libya after driving from Algeria and crossing through Tunisia on its way to the Gaza Strip to challenge Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid on the territory. READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 11 U.S. warns against attending UN conference on Israel-Palestinian two-state solution. From Reuters. PARIS / WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is discouraging governments around the world from attending a U.S. conference next week on a possible two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, according to a U.S. cable seen by Reuters. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Cradle.
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